On 12 Feb 2008, at 01:23, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
>>>> I just have finished a converter of OSM xml format to GML and I
>>> *BOLDLY*suggest to constrain the allowed characters of tags (=
>>> key-names) to the
>>> following XML related set:
>>> 'aAbBcCdDeEfFgGhHiIjJkKlLmMnNoOpPqQrRsStTuUvVwWxXyYzZ_' in order
>>> to retain
>>> reusability.
>> There is a reason why our data format has
>> <tag k="keyname" v="value" />
>> instead of
>> <keyname>value</keyname>
>> and that reason is allowing non-XML stuff in the key names. Or at
> least it seems like that could have been a reason. I hope nobody's
> going to come forward and tell me it was just decided over a few beers
> ;-)
Yes. Sorry.
have fun,
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